My mother made my sister a birthday cake with Barbie sticking straight up out the middle, wearing a serape and a sombrero, and the cake was decorated as if it were her skirt, sort of in a Mexican pattern, I think it was intended to be. There may well have been another one with Barbie decorated as a ballet dancer, but that may simply be my overheated imagination.
As for me, I set up sordid scenes with Barbie and GI Joe, only much, much later, in fact this year, to read, "Barbie Comes With GI Joe, She Fakes It With Ken." How liberating, after all these years of being told, "Barbie Comes With Ken." If you live long enough, you finally learn the truth. |
